Her chosen mate (The change series 2)

Chapter 19: Fun, games and taken

Natasha

Kai stayed away from our place all day and I started to wonder if he’d changed his mind about the date. He’d sent a text saying wear something comfortable, and I’d heard nothing else since. I wore black leggings and a long sleeved black top, black was slimming, and I hated showing my arms off, so I wore it even though it wasn’t quite yet the end of summer.

Kai came over around five and we left together. It was awkward at first, Kai was always the joker and playful one, but he was as silent and quiet as me right now.

He unlocked the car and pulled out some blue roses. “Here.” He gave them to me along with my favourite chocolates.

“Thank you, what made you choose blue roses?” I asked shyly.

He shrugged, “they reminded me of your eyes.”

I blushed and hugged him. “Thank you, these are lovely.”

“Glad you approve,” he grinned, a little of his spark returning now the awkward part was over.

“Let me put them in some water quick. I’ll be right back.” I rushed off, found a tall glass to use for now, then rushed back out to him.

“So, where are we going?” I asked.

“You’ll have to wait and see,” he smiled.

I was confused when we drove up to a forest looking area. He parked up on some gravel next to other cars and I still wasn’t sure what was going on as we got out and joined a group of people.

When the person who was running this place handed us some overalls I finally knew what it was. “Paintballing? I whispered.

“You like gaming, right? I know you enjoy shooter games.” Kai grinned.

“Will it hurt?” I asked.

He laughed at me. “Babe, we turn into wolves more than once a week, I’m sure you can handle the little pin p.rick of a paintball hitting you.”

I bumped him with my side but smiled. We ended up on opposite teams. This was an unfair fight for the humans. With two werewolves who knew how to hunt, could smell and track and hear, the only lucky part for them was that both teams had a werewolf each to help them out, it would ultimately come down to me and Kai against each other.

Our team had an overly arrogant leader telling us what to do, snapping at anyone who didn’t do it fast enough or for any tiny little thing, he wouldn’t listen to me when I tried telling him not to go left, he basically said I was a girl and didn’t know how this stuff worked, I was basically supposed to just shut up and do as I was told. I.diot.

I went off my own way, ignoring him yelling for me to get back, three others chose to follow me and stayed low and tried to stay stealthy.

The guy beside me got hit, and I quickly ran and hid behind a tree, the other two found their own spots to hide. It must be Kai because I hadn’t heard or smelt a damn thing. I heard someone else to my right, about six feet away, I made my way over quietly and found them hiding behind a bush. I shot him, and he yelled dramatically, “f***k!”

Giggling, I ran off before Kai became aware.

My team was losing, but slowly I started taking out Kai’s until, as predicted, it was between me and him. Now this was a challenge the wolf could enjoy, a new surge of adrenaline coursed through me and I ran further into the forest and kept downwind.

A rustle in the distance had me spinning towards it, gun pointed, but it was only a bird taking flight. I slowly crept forward, looking around, ears listening, nose sniffing the air.

Another noise, the sound of a twig snapping, I spun my gun towards it, but it was a damn squirrel, it made a noise of panic smelling me and ran. Animals didn’t like us, they could smell the wolf, the dangerous predator, but got confused because we looked no different to any other human.

The stupid squirrel squeaking was my downfall. I felt the gun pressed against the back of my head before I smelt him and slowly turned around. Kai.

“Hey, baby,” he grinned, then he shot me in the chest.

I fell to my knees dramatically. “Kai! Damn it!” I swatted his leg and he laughed.

“f***k, I forgot you’re a proper little gamer rager, aren’t ya.”

“Go away,” I growled.

He tried, badly, to control his laughter as he helped me up. “Sorry baby, I’ll make it up to you.”

“How?”

“I’ll win you something.”

“Huh?”

He pulled me along to rejoin the others and when we’d given back the guns and the overalls he took me into another town that had a beach and arcades.

He took me into the arcades and spent a stupid amount trying to win me a big bunny, I tried to stop him, but he said, “nope, I’m winning this for you, I can’t take you on some date, beat you in a game and take you home a sore loser, can I?” He grinned.

I elbowed him in the side for that and threatened, “you better win me two now.”

He did, he got me the big bunny and a small wolf. I was so excited, like a big kid that I didn’t think and just leaned up and kissed him on the lips. “Sorry!” I quickly pulled back fast making it no more than a peck.

“That’s alright, love, you can kiss me if you want,” he murmured. I almost melted into a pool of happiness and desire, it was the first time he’d really flirted with me.

He pulled me in against him, shoved the bunny’s face out of the way and kissed me softly on the lips, it was long and slow and absolutely perfect. He kept it sweet and simple, no tongues, and I was glad because I didn’t know how to do that, and I didn’t want to embarrass myself trying in public.

We stayed out until it was dark and finished the night by going to the movies. When the film was finished, I waited outside while Kai used the restroom.

It was pretty quiet, probably because everyone else would rather be out clubbing and drinking than going to the cinema. The night air was warm, and I was enjoying it, I didn’t hear anything, didn’t see anything, didn’t smell anything.

Arms grabbed me around the waist, one hand slid up to cover my mouth and I found myself being carried towards a grey car, wait, I knew that car. I kicked and fought, but it was pointless against another werewolf, a male werewolf, it was the mutt who we had been looking for, but he found me instead.

He hit me hard enough to knock me out and my last thoughts were that I should have really taken dad up on his offer to train me to fight.

I started waking up when he dragged me out of the car under my arms, my lower back scraped across the hard concrete floor, a layer of skin scraped away and a jolt of pain hit me along with the pain in my head.

It was too dark for me to see much of anything, so I used my nose instead. I couldn’t smell humans, so we were somewhere isolated, I couldn’t hear any cars nearby, very isolated, I could smell trees and grass, a woods or forest close by?

He pulled me inside somewhere, a house? A cabin? I couldn’t tell, but I could feel carpet underneath me. Dots still danced before my eyes and I struggled to focus, my head pounded painfully, and he dropped me so roughly my head hit the floor and I blacked out again.